I'm not doing my blog today!!! April Fool's! I totally fooled you. Today we listened to a poor AF's joke from Burnsy. We listened to some lecturing. Operation Barbarossa was the greatest land war in recorded history. Began on June 22, 1941. Germany did really well at first but when winter set in, the tides changed. Germany wanted Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad. Germany lost about 400,000 and Soviet Union lost about 1,280,000. Germany got within 12 miles of Moscow but that was the closest. Angry at the loss, Hitler fired the commander and toook cahrge of his military forces. Ironically that was around the time when Germany started going down the drain. Siege was a surrounding bombardment. Siege of Leningrad lasted 872 days. Yowch. They resorted to cannabalism to survive. Erwin Rommel (the desert fox) was probably the best German general and fought in Africa. Called Desert Fox because he was cunning, clever, like a fox. He was killed because he was involved with an assassination attempt. George Patton was an American general. He was a lot like Coach Murtaugh...
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